Badge or button



Patented Feb. 24,19 211 INVENTOR. 6%

"Ff i0 ATTORNEYS.

- UNITED sir ,TEs PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH BOTT, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO. BASTIAN BROS. COMPANY,OF ROCHESTER, NE\/V YORK, A CORPORATION.

BADGE on BUTTON.

Patented Feb. 24, 1920.

Application filed July 10, 1919. Serial No. 309,876.

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The present invention relates to a badge or button and more particularlyto the manner of securing a fastening device to the badge or button, anobject of this invention being to provide a construction in which thefastening device is not only firmly secured to the badge or buttonagainst accidental displacement, but is also held against turningmovement on the badge or button.

To this and other ends the invention consists of certain parts andcombinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described, thenovel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front face view of the badge or button;

Fig. 2 is a rear face view;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line 33, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4: is an enlarged section on the line 4-4, Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a detail view of the fastening device.

Badges or buttons have been formed heretofore of sheet metal plates withcollets under which a fastening device has been received, but suchconstructions have been defective due to the fact that the fasteningdevices were not permanently secured to the button body and the latterwould turn on the fastening device. According to this invention, thefastening device is secured to the button body in such a manner that itcannot become accidentally disconnected from the body and the body isheld against turning on the fastening device.

Referring more particularly to the drawings wherein one embodiment ofthe invention is illustrated, 1 indicates the circular front plate ofthe button or badge which has at its edge a rearwardly turned annularflange 2 deflected slightly inwardly. This front plate is covered by asheet of celluloid 3 or other material held in place on the front plateby a collet 4.

The collet is of annular form and is made of sheet metal, its outer edgebeing received within and held by the rearwardly and inwardly turnedflange and its inner edge being turned or bent forwardly at 5substantially in abutment with the rear face of the front plate toprovide a substantially closed annular space 6 for the reception of thefastening device. This forwardly turned portion at the inner edge of thecollet is deflected away from the rear face of the front plate at twodiametrically opposite points indicated at 7 The fastening device asillustrated in Fig. 5 is formed from i a single piece of wire stock andhas portions 8 received within the annular space formed by the collet. AU shaped portion 9 between the ends of the wire stock is bent to projectfrom the annular space under one of said deflected portions 7 to providean anchor for the pin 10 of the fastening device. Apin 10 is formed byone of the eX- treme ends of the wire and projects through the otherdeflected portion 7 of the collet.

By this arrangement the side walls of the deflected portions 7 of thecollet cooperate with the pin 10 and the U shaped portion 9 to preventthe turning of the fastening device in the collet. At the same time, theportions 8 of the fastening device are housed due to the fact that theinner edge of the collet projects forwardly substantially to the forwardface of the fastening device thus holding the fastening device againstaccidental removal.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A badge or button comprising acircular front plate having a rearwardlyand inwardly turned annular flange, an annular collet formed of sheetmetal and having its outer edge received within and held by the flangeof the front wall and its inner edge turned forwardly substantially intoabutment with the rear face of the front plate to provide a'substantially closed annular space, the forwardly turned inner edgehaving, at two diametrically opposite points,

portions deflected awayfromthe rear face one of said deflected portionso f-the, collet of the front plate, and a fastening device to prwide ananchor, and a portion at one formed of a single piece of wire stock andend extended throught'he space 'below the 10 havingportions receivedandheldwithin the other deflected portion of the collet to pro- 5annular space by the forwardly tnrnedinner Vide 'a pin which isada-ptedto engage with edgeof the collet, a portion between its ends the anchor.V bent to project from the annular space under JOSEPH BOTT.

